Trout

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This brown trout took a RTB Legend bibbed minnow fished on spinning gear at Lake Dunstan. Photograph Dick Marquand. Bibbed trout minnows.
  • Trout Spinners
    • Bibbed Trout Minnows for Trolling and Spin Fishing – All Sold in NZ

    Bibbed Trout Minnows for Trolling and Spin Fishing each with a Star Rating – Five-Star.

    15/06/2022
    Top, Jensen Insect 9g made in Denmark and Mepps Aglia-3,made in France. Blade Spinners.
  • Tackle
  • Trout Spinners
    • Blade Spinners for Trout Fishing – Why not make your own?

    Blade Spinners for Trout Fishing – Why not make your own? A look at these.

    14/06/2022
    There's a good frosting of snow on the ground in this winter scene of Lake Pearson, in the Canterbury high country. Canterbury Winter Fishing Blues
  • Canterbury
  • Trout
    • Canterbury Winter Fishing Blues

    Canterbury Winter Fishing Blues By Piscator As an angler, don’t you just hate winter? The.

    17/05/2022
    Muz looks a bit like a wasp himself. The flowering gorse in the background sends clouds of bees across dangerous waters. Photo Andy Trowbridge.
  • Trout
    • Terrestrials and the Trout – A User’s Guide of Fly Patterns to Imitate Them

    Terrestrials and the Trout – A User’s Guide of Fly Patterns to Imitate Them In.

    14/06/2022
    Monty and brown trout at Poolburn Dam.
  • Otago
  • Trout
    • Poolburn Dam Brown Trout Fishing – 300 Hectare Lake in Ida Valley Otago

    Poolburn Dam Brown Trout Fishing – part of the Old Dunstan trail from the Styx.

    03/05/2022
    A large steelhead, rainbow trout, from the Kalum River near Terrace, in British Columbia, Canada. There is no evidence of sea-run rainbow trout in New Zealand.
  • Freshwater Fishes
  • Trout
    • Steelhead in New Zealand – To Sea or Not to Sea? Often the Question

    Steelhead in New Zealand – To Sea or Not to Sea? The Story of Sea-Run.

    28/05/2022
    Allan Burgess spin fishing for trout at Lake Selfe in the Canterbury high country.
  • Trout Fishing
  • Trout Spinners
    • Spinning for Trout with Lures, Soft Baits, Flies and Bubble Floats

    Spinning for Trout with Lures, Softbaits and Bubble Floats By Allan Burgess For the novice.

    11/01/2022
    Opening of the high country fishing season at the Coleridge lakes. Angler Andrew Wells tries to tempt one of about a dozen rainbow trout that were swimming close to the shore on Lake Georgina. Photo: Richard Cosgrove/Fish & Game NZ.
  • Trout
  • Trout Fishing
    • November is the month for anglers to explore!

    Fish and Game NZ Opening of several backcountry and high-country waterways in the South Island .

    01/11/2021
    Evolution of fly fishing.
  • Fly Fishing New Zealand
    • Evolution of Fly Fishing

    Evolution of Fly Fishing – An interesting look back in time By Monty Wright The.

    30/10/2021
    Andy T with an 11 pound spotted beauty taken on a #14 Speckled Nymph. Photo by Randall Wood.
  • Fly Fishing New Zealand
    • Pool Sharing – A Tale of Two Fishes

    By Paul Corliss ”No”! he said emphatically. ”It’s my pool and I’ll get to it.

    08/10/2021
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